http://theweek.com/articles/654451/how-donald-trump-turned-ted-cruz-into-laughingstockHow Donald Trump turned Ted Cruz into a laughingstock Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry
October 12, 2016
Sing, o muse, of the tragedy of Ted Cruz. Sing of Ted of Princeton, the grey knight who so badly wanted to be white. Sing of how his peers thought him a knave, he who only wanted to be "TrusTed." Sing of how he wrote a book, titled A Time for Truth, to remind us all of how truthful he was, seemingly oblivious to the fact that genuinely truthful people do not usually need to assert their own truthfulness.
It's possible to tell the story of Ted Cruz's now defunct political career as a tragedy, but really it would be more accurate to tell it as a farce. John Boehner once famously described Ted Cruz as "Lucifer in the flesh." But Ted Cruz is not the Devil, nor is he a witch. He's just a joke.
Ted Cruz arrived in Washington as one of the senators from the great Tea Party waves of 2010 and 2012. He quickly made his mark. Not, as so many thought, as one of the most conservative members of a caucus that already contains a fair amount of very conservative members, but as an agitator. He didn't just oppose Republican and veteran Chuck Hagel's nomination for Obama's secretary of defense, but slyly and without grounds accused him of taking money from Saudi Arabia and being an anti-Semite.
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